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  • Fugly! (Score:1)

    by soulchild (8747) on 2010.08.27 3:23 (#72352)
    You seriously consider this "idiomatic" solution more elegant? If that is what idiomatic Perl 6 looks like, it will never take off ... Sorry, but that is as unreadable as it could possibly get and just fuels the unstoppable line-noise argument even more. Good languages _can_ be descriptive, self-documenting and to a degree self-explanatory. I always thought that one of Perl's philosophies was to be more like a human language. Guess I was wrong, it's math after all ...

    • I always thought that one of Perl's philosophies was to be more like a human language. Guess I was wrong, it's math after all ...

      In some sense, I think it's entirely appropriate that solving a problem from (arguably) a mathematical domain ends up with a solution that looks mathematical. Just because this particular problem ends up with a mathematical-looking answer in Perl 6 doesn't mean that all Perl 6 programs will look like mathematics. Answers to problems in other domains will tend to look like the

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